Scope of Discourses on Educational Reform and Their Prospects

2002Discourses on the issue of paradigm shift or reform of the educational system can be categorized into three different views; historico-cultural transformation, failure, and everyday betterment. However, these views are mingled with each other at the utterance level, each one mixed part and parcel with the others' logic. In order to grasp the future prospects of these discourse, and ultimately the directions of the educational system itself, these discourses need to be clarified. This paper adheres to the historico-cultural transformative view as the contemporary understanding in order to review the discourses on the educational reform and relate their implications to the present phenomena schools are facing. It is this paper's tentative argument that the present agenda of educational reform may not be covered by everyday betterment, but rather by a radical approach